Sydney Harbor, originally uploaded by The Magins.

Australia equals adventure. Its non- stop action sprinkled with long relaxing days swimming, beach walking and sight seeing. Kim and I really like it here and are excited about the potential move downunder. It almost seems hard to believe that we started talking about moving there less than two years ago and it could be a reality in less than a year from now!

Even though we’re here for “business” we are also here having fun. Click on the photos above for a small photo journal of our trip so far. We landed Sunday the 8th and stayed with our friends Colin and Jen and their new little baby Abbey before caravanning for 6 short days. The weather was HORRIBLE! We did have one day of sun and got some hiking in. We saw the Three Sisters and climbed what seemed to my legs like a million steps. I may walk a lot on London but it doesn’t prepare you for a hike in the mountains. I am out of shape! The rain came just in time for us to go down under, down under. The Janolan caves were only 40 minutes from the town of Katoomba where we hiked.

We saw an underwater river. Our first ever. The water was so pure and clear it didn’t look like water was even there! The cave photo that looks like a sandy looking rock actually has super clear water over it. About 1 meter.

It then rained for the rest of that night near the Janolan caves where we stayed. We woke and I felt like I was back in the UK; cold, gray, wet and rainy so I made an executive decision and we headed to the coast where the weather wasn’t much better but we found a really great beach town called Avoca and had amazing dinner inside. It was warmer on the coast too, even though it wasn’t much dryer.

The next day we drove back to Sydney and hung out with our friends Colin and Jen. They have been super accommodating. They had lent us their couch to sleep on, their GPS to get us around Oz, their car to drive around in, their yummy drinks and snacks at their house, and most importantly their great company. They are so much fun!

We took two days to hang out in Sydney. We did a few touristy things and just walked around a bit to do, well the things you do in a city, eat, shop, dodge cars and people. Sydney proper has the biggest concentration of people I’ve seen yet in Sydney. There is no traffic and really not much people dodging even on the city streets. We like it!

We have been diving. Haven’t taken any shots yet underwater, as we haven’t seen too much worth taking shots of. We did see a school of about 200 Barracuda about 2 meters below the surface today. We don’t know what they were doing so close to shore other than that they might have been chased by a big shark. We didn’t see the shark. I am so glad we didn’t. I’m not sure of I’m ready for that yet!

We have about one week left before going back to the UK. I am a bit bummed we have to leave but at least be have something really great to look forward to!